Events in History
- Jan 24 University of Calcutta founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia
- Mar 3 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
- Mar 6 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
- May 10 Indian mutiny against rule by the British East India Company begins with the revolt of the Sepoy soldiers in Meerut
- Jun 26 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria
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Robert Baden-Powell
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Joseph ConradHistorical Marriages
- Jan 10 Novelist Jules Verne (28) weds Honorine de Viane Morel
- Jun 6 Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway
- Jul 16 Confederate general Thomas Jackson (33) weds Mary Anna Morrison in Lincoln County
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Historical Figures Who Died in 1857
- Jan 27 Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
- Feb 7 Félix de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War and Finance, dies at 65
- Feb 10 David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (Columbia River), dies at 86
- Feb 16 Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77
- Feb 16 Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37
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The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court
First edition of The Case of Dred Scott in the US Supreme Court decisionMarch 6The Indian Mutiny
Mutineers are executed by the Bengal Horse Artillery, in a painting by Orlando NoireMay 10Fort Knox-style Security for Folger Library
In 2020 a First Folio of William Shakespeare’s works was sold at auction in New York for nearly ten million dollars. And the Folger Library has 82 of them.June 18
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